Gigs of samples, coming from KORG, third parties, and the Kronos and Krome libraries.Wave Sequencing 2.0 (more parameters, lanes!).And you can play all this from the front panel with tons of real-time controls. There are just a hell of a lot of features in this thing, a totally new take on wave sequencing, in a more compact and friendly form factor, plus modeled filters and a bunch of effects.

(Think more Bojack Horseman – 90s references, but self-aware.) So in other words, instead of bringing back a 1990s thing and pretending it’s relevant now – yes, Frasier reboot, I’m looking at you – the KORG wavestate is something new. It’s true.) Want a filter that sounds like an MS-20? Polysix? Both are in there. wavestate: independent timing, sample sequence, and melody, plus shapes, gate times, step sequencer values, independent lanes – all add together for something dynamic and organic.Īnd another thing – digital in 2020 can mean modeled sounds that are indistinguishable from analog. Wavestation: duration, sample, pitch are sequenced, but they’re repetitive. KORG also took the wave sequencing idea, and built on it. So the Wavestation sounded like a 1990 ROMpler, and the 2020 wavestate doesn’t.) (That was 2 – two! – megabytes on the original. They all worked on the 1990 synth, and they’re back on this one.īut now, all of that 1990 futurism is coupled with a body that looks like KORG’s recent ‘logue keyboards, new features, and samples measure in the gigabytes instead of megabytes. But it is getting the band back together again – John Bowen, John “Skippy” Lehmkuhl (Plugin Guru), and Peter “Ski” Schwartz.

The KORG wavestate is not a Wavestation remake. (Hey, I’m still coming back from the holidays.) And the Wavestation added another idea – wave sequencing, so you could piece together multiple sounds in… uh… sequence. The Prophet VS’s joystick worked as well on the Korg.

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